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F. H. SIMONTON. BREEGH LOADING GUN.

INVENTOR WITNES WASNXNGYON, v. c.

. UNITED-STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

FRANK H. SIMONTON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS C.SIMONTQN, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

BREECH-LOADING GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,726, datedSeptember 16, 1890.

Application filed March 13, 1890. Serial No. 344,584- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK I-I. SIMONTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey,have invented new and useful Improvements in Breech-Loading Guns, theobject being to provide a cheap and at the same time safe gun intendedto shoot a cartridge, with proper means for loading and removing thecartridge-shell after firing.

I attain the objects by the mechanism and parts illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinalcross-section of the gun. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the barrelof the gun and plugs. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through 0 in Fig. 1.

Similar figures refer to similar parts in all the views.

1 represents the stock; 2, the lock; 3, the stand or guard, aud t is apin through the same, which is enlarged, on one end, so that it cannotbe forced back through the guard 3. In the front part of the guard is achamber of a size just sufficient to receive plug 6. Plug 6 is designedand adapted to hold a cartridge, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This plugand the chamber in the guard may be dispensed with; but as a matter ofsafety I deem it wise to use them, because when used the cartridge isentirely within the gun. 7 and 8 are two tubes, the bore of the innertube serving for the bore of the gun-barrel, and are held in position byplugs 6 and 9, and together with the said two plugs form the gun-barrel.

10 represents the spring-catches placed on the stand or guard 3.

11 represents a catch on each spring-catch 10, and they pass throughholes made in guard 3, so that when spring-catches 10 are compressed theendswill catch the cartridge just in front of its head. I

12 represents lugs on the outside of the barrel, 13 lugs on the underside of the barrel, and 14 longitudinal slots in said lugs.

15 represents pins which pass through the stock and the slots 14, theobject of the pins being to prevent the barrel from moving backward orforward beyond the length of the slots and to hold itdown in position onthe stock.

16 is the hammer of the lock.

The stock may be of wood, the plugs, guard, and look of cast-iron, andthe tubes composing the barrel of metal of sufficient strength to 5 5hold the pressure, or the barrel may be an ordinary rifle-barrel withthe plug 6 attached. Theformofthe'spring-catchesmaybechanged, or theymay be placed on the barrel and the lugs on the guard.

The manner of operating the gun'is as follows: Spring-catches 10 arecompressed and the lugs 12 on the barrel released. The barrel is pushedforward and a cartridge placed in plug 6. The barrel is then pushed backin position, the spring-catches 1O engaging with lugs 12 and holding thebarrel firmly in position. The plug 6 enters the chamber in guard 3. Thehammer 16 is pulled back and then thrown forward against pin 4, and thelatter strikes the cap of the cartridge with sufficient force to explodeit. After the cartridge is fired the spring-catches 10 are compressed,and the catches 11 are forced thereby against the cartridge and hold itfirmly, while the barrel is pushed forward and the cartridge is releasedfrom the plug and then removed from the gun, which is again ready foranother charge.

I am aware that many devices are used for removing the shell of thecartridge from the gun, as well as many modes of releasing the barrel,so that the cartridge can be inserted in the breech. I do not thereforeclaim the same broadly; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a breech-loading gun, the combination of the following elements:astock 1,1001:

2, a guard 3, having a chamber adapted to receive plug 6 and alsoadapted to hold a movable pin, pin 4, a plug 6, adapted to holda'cartridge and also forming a part of the barrel, spring-catches 10 andlugs 12, detachably connecting the barrel and guard together, catches11, connected with spring-catches 1O 5 and moving crosswise throughguard 3, and a I barrel composed of tubes held in position by plugs andslidingly connected to the stock by lugs 13, provided with slot 14 andpins 15, the parts constructed and arranged snbstan- Ioc tially as andfor the purpose set forth.

2. In a breech-loading gun, the combination of a gun-barrel having onits rear end and adapted to enter a chamber in the guard a plug adaptedto receive a cartridge, and said barrel being detachably connected withthe guard, with a guard having a chamber of a size to receive'tlie saidplug, and amovable pin through the guard, and the stock and lock,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a breech-loading gun, the stock, the barrel slidingly connectedwith the stock by pins through slots in lugs on the barrel, and the rearend of the barrel forming a plug adapted to receive a cartridge and toenter a chamber in the guard when in position, combined with a guardattached to the stock having a chamber adapted to hold said plug andalso having a hole connecting with the chamber and extending to the backof the guard adapted to receive a pin, a movable pin through the guardextending from the back of the guard into the chamber with the lock andhammer, spring-catches engaging with lugs, and catches that may becompressed about the shell of the cartridge, substantially as and forthe purposes hereinabove set forth.

4. In a breech-loading gun, the combination of the stock, the barrelslidingly connected therewith by spring-catches attached to a guardfastened to the stock, said catches engaging with lugs on the barrel andalso having attached thereto catches passing through opposite holes inthe guard, a guard having a chamber in the front end to receive the endof the barrel, and a movable pin extending through said guard and intosaid chamber, substantially as and for th e purposes set forth.

5. In a breech-loading gun, a barrel composed of tubes held in positionby plugs on each end, the rear end plug being also adapted to receive acartridge, and said barrel detachable from the guard, combined with aguard having a chamber to receive the rear plug and a movable pinextending through the guard into said chamber, the lock and stock,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

6. The combination of spring-catches 10 and catches 11 with the guard 3,having a chamber therein, and pin 4, extending through it, and agun-barrel, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

'7. In a breech-loading gun, a barrel composed of metal tubes, the boreof the inner tube being the bore of the gun, said tubes held in positionby plugs, the rear end plug being adapted to hold a cartridge, and saidplugs, in combination with a guard fastened to the stock and havingthrough it a movable pin, the barrel and guard detachably connected,substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

FRANK H. SIMONTON. Witnesses:

EDWARD M. SLINGLAND, THOMAS C. SIMoN'roN.

